Morocco 
Facts
Population: 33,757,175 (July 2007 est.).
Age structure: 0-14 years: 31% (male 5,339,730/female 5,140,482)
15-64 years: 63.9% (male 10,750,240/female 10,815,470)
65 years and over: 5.1% (male 740,686/female 970,567) (2007 est.).
Population growth rate: 1.528% (2007 est.).
Birth rate: 21.64 births/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Death rate: 5.54 deaths/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Net migration rate: -0.82 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Sex ratio: at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.039 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 0.994 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.763 male(s)/female
total population: 0.994 male(s)/female (2007 est.).
Infant mortality rate: total: 38.85 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 42.56 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 34.96 deaths/1,000 live births (2007 est.).
Life expectancy at birth: total population: 71.22 years
male: 68.88 years
female: 73.67 years (2007 est.).
Total fertility rate: 2.62 children born/woman (2007 est.).
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: 0.1% (2001 est.).
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: 15,000 (2001 est.).
HIV/AIDS - deaths: NA.
Nationality: noun: Moroccan(s)
adjective: Moroccan.
Ethnic groups: Arab-Berber 99.1%, other 0.7%, Jewish 0.2%.
Religions: Muslim 98.7%, Christian 1.1%, Jewish 0.2%.
Languages: Arabic (official), Berber dialects, French often the language of business, government, and diplomacy.
Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 52.3%
male: 65.7%
female: 39.6% (2004 census).
GDP (purchasing power parity): $152.5 billion (2006 est.).
GDP - real growth rate: 9.3% (2006 est.).
GDP - per capita (PPP): $4,600 (2006 est.).
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 13.3%
industry: 31.2%
services: 55.5% (2006 est.).
Labor force: 11.25 million (2006 est.).
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture: 40%
industry: 15%
services: 45% (2003 est.).
Population below poverty line: 19% (2005 est.).
Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 2.6%
highest 10%: 30.9% (1998-99).
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 2.8% (2006 est.).
Unemployment rate: 7.7% (2006 est.).
Budget: revenues: $15.85 billion
expenditures: $20.39 billion; including capital expenditures of $2.19 billion (2006 est.).
Agriculture - products: barley, wheat, citrus, wine, vegetables, olives; livestock.
Industries: phosphate rock mining and processing, food processing, leather goods, textiles, construction, tourism.
Industrial production growth rate: 4% (2004 est.).
Electricity - production: 18.48 billion kWh (2004).
Electricity - consumption: 18.89 billion kWh (2004).
Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (2004).
Electricity - imports: 1.7 billion kWh (2004).
Exports: $11.72 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).
Exports - commodities: clothing, fish, inorganic chemicals, transistors, crude minerals, fertilizers (including phosphates), petroleum products, fruits, vegetables.
Exports - partners: France 30.3%, Spain 18%, UK 6.2%, Italy 5.2%, India 4.1% (2005).
Imports: $21.22 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).
Imports - commodities: crude petroleum, textile fabric, telecommunications equipment, wheat, gas and electricity, transistors, plastics.
Imports - partners: France 18.2%, Spain 11%, Saudi Arabia 6.8%, Russia 6.8%, Italy 6.1%, China 5.2%, Germany 4.7% (2005).
Debt - external: $17.9 billion (2006 est.).
Economic aid - recipient: ODA, $706 million (2004).
Currency (code): Moroccan dirham (MAD).
Exchange rates: Moroccan dirhams per US dollar - 8.7722 (2006), 8.865 (2005), 8.868 (2004), 9.574 (2003), 11.021 (2002).
Fiscal year: calendar year.
Statistics: C.I.A. World Factbook. Updated: July 20, 2007.
Press
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(Parti du progrès et développement organ), Casablanca
http://www.albayane.ma/
Al Mustaqil
(independent),
Al-Ahdar
(Weekly magazine), Casablanca
Al-Ahdat al-Maghiribiya
(left-wing newspaper), Casablanca
(Istiqlal nationalist party organ), Rabat
http://www.alalam.ma
(Government-owned), Rabat
http://www.alanbaa.press.ma/
Al-Harika
(Popular Movement, conservative),
Morocco in the News
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Reactions from around the world to the suicide bombing attacks in Casablanca on May 16.
Sarah Coleman profiles Sidi Mohammed Daddach, an activist from the disputed territory Western Sahara recently released from death row in Morocco.
Morocco's political elite is worried about plotting by radical Islamists to institute an islamic state. Officials in Morocco and United States are investigating the islamists' possible links to Al-Qaeda.
When on July 11 a handful of Moroccan frontier guards planted their national flag and a tent on the tiny uninhabited island of Perejil—Leila, in Arabic—tensions between Rabat and Madrid heated up.
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